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Cultivation
Brent Ledger in a column about collecting culture (a review of an anthology of Canadian gay poetry) in Xtra! May 10, 2007, invites us to meditate on the means of self-creation: As much as history creates us, we create history. … Continue reading
Debugging
In his 1970 Turing Lecture, “Form and Content in Computer Science” (Journal of the ACM 17.2 April 1970), Marvin Minsky makes a number of observations which I like to gather under the rubric “the social impact of the how”. It … Continue reading
Anti-Theft
Augustine’s Rule Chap 8.5 Should anyone conceal a gift bestowed upon him he shall be judged guilty of theft. Begs for an ontology of gifts. They are concealable. Not necessarily so. Gifts unbestowed are not yet open to concealment. There … Continue reading
Anti-Agon
From Asobi: The Sensibilities at Play by Yoshida Mitsukuni published in 1987 from two places and partners (Tokyo: Cosmo Public Relations Corp. Hiroshima: Mazda Motor Corporation) Gambling emerged as a form of play in which the players gave themselves up … Continue reading
Inspired
<a name=”uzitor” href=”mailto:noFreeLunch@anyWhereanyWhenanyHOW.ca> Spammers collect email addresses. The more bogus email addresses they collect, the less clean data they have to ply their trade. From the poetic prose of Patti Smith: in the wall is a hole. duchamp thumbprint pin … Continue reading
Impermanence
It is worth sometimes to revisit the passages copied out for placement in a gathering of commonplaces. For example this snippet from the C.K. Scott Moncrieff translation of Cities of the Plain “The Heart’s Intermissions” seems a tad melancholic: The … Continue reading
Bright beginnings
Sentiments have their destiny. Jules Barbey D’Aurevilly translated by Douglas Ainslie. It’s the opening sentence to Dandyism Just one destiny. Perhaps multiple destinations. And so for day 147 10.05.2007
Reverse Transcript Ease
DNA is “and” backwards. lortnoc is “control” bkwds sounds like a lord of night And so for day 144 07.05.2007
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On lag, from Humanist action in computing. A step by step method can be halted. There is always a lag. Obviously hardware response time and control of peripheral devices is a case in point. There is also some space to … Continue reading
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Spell
riddle: charm filter charm: riddle feeder And so for day 141 04.05.2007